US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Systems and methods for facilitating dark current compensation by weighted filtering" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,966, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating dark current compensation by weighted filtering" was invented by Christian Markus Maekelae (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Bleyer (Seattle) and Christopher Douglas Edmonds (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating dark current compensation by weighted filtering is configurable to (i) receive an input dark current image; (ii) generate a corrected dark current image at least by scaling pixel values of the input dark current image based upon ambient light conditions; and generate a...